About the Journal

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Aims and Scope 
Aim: To provide a forum for current issues across all aspects of international trade, including legal, economic, management, financial reporting, and policy. 

The objectives of AJTP are to become the primary source of analyses and perspectives on economic and trade issues and to serve as an effective channel of communication among policy-makers, government agencies, and academic and research institutions. It emphasizes problems of international significance and offers important lessons for policymakers and the broad audience that participates in the policy debate, thereby promoting and coordinating developments in international trade and economic expansion. The journal will highlight national, regional, international, and universal realities.  

Scope: The fields covered by AJTP include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Accounting harmonization
  • Business ethics
  • Case studies, lessons learned 
  • Competition law
  • Corporate entrepreneurship
  • Cross-cultural management
  • Economic growth 
  • Energy law and policy
  • Entrepreneurship among minority groups
  • Entrepreneurship and ethics
  • Entrepreneurship in developing countries
  • Entrepreneurship in ethnic enclaves 
  • FDI and international economics
  • Financing trade deficits
  • Foreign investment
  • Forensic Accounting
  • Global economy and trade policy
  • Governance and regulation
  • Government policy on entrepreneurship
  • Indigenous entrepreneurs
  • Intellectual property
  • Interaction between global markets and trade 
  • The interface between trade and policy
  • International economic issues 
  • International Financial Reporting
  • International trade and international business
  • Internet law
  • Innovation, technopreneurship, licensing/franchising
  • Labor law
  • Law and enterprise
  • Marketing of innovations/by entrepreneurs
  • Review of books and articles on trade and policy
  • Self-employment among immigrants
  • Social Business
  • Strategic cooperation among SMEs
  • Technological/organizational innovation
  • The impact of government debts on international trade 
  • The impact of government debts on management issues 
  • The importance of growing wealth disparity in trade  
  • The role of international economic organizations 
  • The role of IT in the process of globalization 
  • The role of oil and gas: industry intentions 
  • The role of oil and gas: pricing strategies, etc. 
  • Theoretical and empirical issues in international economics 
  • Trade and policy issues of developing countries 
  • Trade and policy modeling
  • Trade as determined by currency instability 
  • Venture capital, government funds/grants
  • Women entrepreneurs
  • WTO and its policies

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Licensing: Published content is released under licenses from Creative Commons. American Journal of Trade and Policy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC 4.0). This journal uses the CC BY-NC to protect the author's work from misuse. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon work non-commercially, and their new works must also be non-commercial. Articles can be read and shared for noncommercial purposes under the conditions of Attribution-NonCommercial [BY: Attribution must be given to the original source (Attribution); NC: Works may not be used for commercial purposes (Noncommercial)].

License Deed Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Legal Code Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode

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American Journal of Trade and Policy is a RoMEO blue journal, registered with SHERPA/RoMEO to ensure that the journal's license terms and self-archiving policies are 100% clear. We support and encourage the author self-archiving of all content under the archiving Policy-

Pre-print: author cannot archive pre-print (i.e., pre-refereeing)
Post-print: author can archive post-print final draft post-refereeing 
Publisher's Version/PDF: author can archive publisher's version/PDF

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This journal uses DOI article identifiers. Each paper published in this journal is assigned a DOI, which appears beneath the author's affiliation in the publication. Click HERE to know what a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is and to retrieve DOIs for the American Journal of Trade and Policy publications. To check "Authoritative Query", go directly to the responsible site at https://doi.org/. 

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CrossRef is the official DOI registration agency for scholarly and professional publications. American Journal of Trade and Policy is a registered prefix holder (10.18034/ajtp) with CrossRef, and we assign all peer-reviewed articles Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) through it. The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) links ensure that articles published in this journal have persistent identifiers. 

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American Journal of Trade and Policy is registered with Open Archives, and all article metadata is openly available for harvesting by indexing services via OAI-PMH. Via OAI-PMH, the journal supports metadata harvesting and interoperability with OAI-compliant indexing and discovery services.  

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Anti-plagiarism Checking: All articles submitted to the American Journal of Trade and Policy are initially assessed (in-house screening) by an Editor/ Managing Editor for overall suitability for the journal. All manuscripts are screened for plagiarism by the originality check system from anti-plagiarism software. The managing editor will use Grammarly and Paperrater to check the originality of submissions received. This screening system compares incoming submissions with a large database of academic content and alerts editors to potential issues.

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Professional Affiliations: The Council of Science Editors (CSE) provides an opportunity to work with other publishers to further the interests of researchers throughout the world, and requires all members to follow the White Paper on Publication Ethics (CSE's White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications).

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This journal adheres to the COPE guidelines for best practice. As a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the American Journal of Trade and Policy ensures that our team adheres to the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers. 

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Informed Decision: We strongly encourage authors to make a more informed decision before submitting any manuscript. In order to help the authors make 'more informed decisions' and to substantiate our claims. The authors should visit the official site of the indexing organization or journal evaluation services before submitting any manuscript. We hope the authors will appreciate our efforts to maintain integrity and transparency.​

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Disclaimer 
American Journal of Trade and Policy makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in its publications. However, the journal and its editors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties, whether express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not the views of the editors.  

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Errors and letters
As humans, we all make mistakes. You may find after your paper has been published that it contains an error. If this happens, you need to contact the editorial team immediately; the paper cannot be changed (if it has already been deposited with a DOI), but an addendum to the paper can be published in the journal as soon as possible. If the error is a major one, e.g., there was a problem with your original study that now invalidates your findings, the paper may be retracted, but this is very rare.

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Complaints Policy  
The Managing Editor and staff of the American Journal of Trade and Policy will make every effort to put matters right as soon as possible, in the most appropriate way, and will offer the right of reply where necessary. As far as possible, we will investigate complaints in a blame-free manner, looking to see how systems can be improved to prevent mistakes.

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